FREE DOWNLOADABLE DR. SEUSS ACTIVITY BOOK

Education.com is currently offering a free downloadable 20 page Dr. Seuss Activity Book that would be a great boredom buster for pre-schoolers-early elementary age children on a rainy day.

It has short word/letter recognition, simple addition and mental sorting games with different lovable Dr. Seuss characters.

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DIY Dinosaur Sandpit or Fossils

Source: papervinenz.com via Kathryn on Pinterest

Digging for dinosaurs would be a fun way to keep bored grade school age kids occupied this summer and with the DIY tutorial from Paper Vine using Plaster of Paris, a hammer, cheap safety glasses some dollar store dinosaurs you can create the same experience with your youngster.  

The above a "sandpit" method where the mixture is poured in the sand with the plastic dinosaurs and it took the blogger's son nearly a week to chisel through.   Or if you are an don't have space or you just want to occupy a few children for a few hours you can use smaller molds and put a dinosaur in each mold.

Source: papervinenz.com via Kathryn on Pinterest